The Smile of Myrtidia The young Athenian Myrtis lost her life in a early agebut will be revealed again her smile thanks to the unique remodeling of the Greek scientistsHer name is ‘Myrtis’ and is 11 years. Nearly 2,500 years later, the smile of Myrtidia is about to be seen again. Greek and European scientists worked together to recreate the face the 11 year-old girl. This is one of the most successful cases of rehabilitation because the child’s skull remained perfect, giving scientists the opportunity to work with the least possible deviation from reality, not known is the color of her eyes or tone of her skin. How successful can we be the reconstruction of her face Myrtidia? According to Mr. Papagrigorakis ‘In every person there is always regenerate a degree of ambiguity arises from the existence of cartilage components. Here the reconstruction which is undoubtedly very close to reality. This is a unique case where we know exactly how the person was a person who lived in classical antiquity, and the statues are likely to be beautified expressions of reality. '

discovered during the excavation of a mass grave in the Kerameikos in the mid 1990's. This is one of eight children found in a tomb. Work was done by the archaeologist kyriaEfi Vaziotopoulou-Valavanis, the geneticist k. Christo Giapitzakikai the orthodontists Manoli Papagrigorakis also Filippo Synodinos. With the use of molecular techniques that allow the analysis of DNA sequences. IN THE PHOTO: THE GIRL MYRTIS AS IF SHE HAS COME BACK TO LIFEviewfrom left side